by dmackinnon | Apr 30, 2020 | Healing Choices
One morning recently I woke up with a feeling of…I couldn’t quite name it. I felt unsettled, like something was wrong. I started to think of all the different areas of my life, looking for a cause for the feeling. My mom…was at risk. My son…wasn’t...
by dmackinnon | Feb 23, 2020 | Healing Choices, Healthy Habits
The speed of life seems to get faster and faster, so I have found it more important to try to slow it down. The only way I know how to do that is by staying present as much as possible. When I say, “as much as possible,” I don’t mean that I spend 90% of my time truly...
by dmackinnon | Jan 23, 2020 | Healing Choices
A number of years ago, a friend and I were traveling to and from New York City together. While we were at Grand Central Station, grabbing a bite to eat before our train left, someone stole my friend’s purse. She’d left it underneath her seat. My friend was very upset,...
by dmackinnon | Dec 19, 2019 | Healing Choices
It’s easy to feel that the days are a grind and nothing really changes. But here we are at the end of the year—and the end of a decade. If you take a look back, you can see that you’ve changed. Maybe your life isn’t that different from what it was a year ago, but my...
by dmackinnon | Nov 21, 2019 | Healing Choices
I recently spoke to a group about self-compassion. I’ve spoken on this topic before, but this time I talked about the two sides of self-compassion, based on the most recent work of Dr. Kristin Neff, a researcher who has been studying compassion for years. One of the...
by dmackinnon | Nov 1, 2019 | Healing Choices, Mindset
I grew up believing I should never make a mistake. That there was something wrong with me when I did make a mistake, as of course I did, all the time! The result of my belief was that I felt terrible every time I made a mistake. Which means, I felt terrible all the...
